News, American Flag Farthest From Home Is Leaving Solar System. (Earth, spacecraft)

[JD59]

This July 4th, U.S. citizens around the world may proudly display American flags to celebrate Independence Day while away from home, but they won't hold a candle to the farthest American flag in history, which is leaving the entire solar system behind on NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft.

The spaceflying American flag is a not a huge version of Old Glory, but will be the only one flying more than 10.5 billion miles (16.9 billion km) from Earth this Fourth of July. It is riding on Voyager 1, a 33-year-old space probe on the outskirts of our solar system.

FOXNews.com - American Flag Farthest From Home Is Leaving Solar System

[Six Foot Three]

Lol ... who remembers the original Star Trek Movie (1980) when in the future Voyager returned back to the solar system and was destroying everything in it's path looking for it's creator as it had gained super powerful knowledge during it's hundreds of years out in outer space

I think it called itself ''V'ger''.

[Daniel NC]

Wow. Interesting fact. Thanks for posting this.

[Dr. Foosball]

I feel bad for the astronaut that got tagged for that mission.